Fastener for collapsible-crate covers.



M. C. ROGERS. FASTENER POR COLLAPSIBLE CRATE COVERS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 8, 1912.

Patented Nov. 1'?, 1914.

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M. C. ROGERS.

PASTENER POR COLLAPHIBLB CRATE COVERS.

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MARSHALL C. ROGERS, OF WILLIAIJIS, CALIFORNIA.

FASTENER FOR COLLAPSIBLE-CRATE COVERS.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MARSHALL C. Roenns, a citizen of the United States, residing at Villiams, in the county of Colusa and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fasteners for Collapsible-Crate Covers, of which the following is a specification.

My :invention relates to fasteners for cratesof that class which are so made that they can be collapsed and folded flat for shipping purposes.

An object `of my invention is to provide means for readily locking the parts in their folded or in their upright positions.

A further object is to so construct the locking device that complete removal thereof is provided.

Figure l is a perspective View of the crate set up. Fig. 2 is a perspective view, showing the ends folded upon the base provided with openings for the locking wire. Figs. 8 and l are enlarged details of parts of the folding` and locking construction. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the crate with the sides folded and the top applied thereon.

The crate, which may be of any suitable or desired size and structure, is here shown as having a base' A, with fixed ends 2 extending upwardly a short distance and provided with locking perforations 14a. The end members 4 which are hinged to the ends 2 are provided with lockingperforations 15 similar to those in the fixed ends. This second set of perforations is for use whenthe crate is in its upright position. The top 6 of the box has downwardly extending fianges on the lower' face thereof for holding the parts in their proper' position. In order to lock these parts together, I have shown a stout wire bent into crank-like form and turnable in staples on each end of the top, as shown at 14.-. The ends of this wire are turned at right angles, extending inwardly through the rim of the top and into a corresponding opening made in the upper edge of the end 4, as shown at 15 in Fig. 4. The wire is here bent into a bight. and the channel or opening in which the wire is movable through the cap of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 8, 1912.

Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

Serial No. 689,175.

cover is of just sufficient diameter to allow a single thickness of the wire to lie therein, but the inner portion of this opening is made double the depth so that it will allow the bight or two thicknesses of the wire to also enter this portion. The object of this is to prevent the wire being entirely pulled out. The wire may be moved sufliciently to withdraw the bight 15 from its engagement with the side of the box, but the turnedover end of the wire will contact with the inner portion of the opening in which it slides to arrest any further movement and prevent the wire from being pulled out and bent out of shape.

Vhen the ends have been foldeddown into place, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5, a set of openings 14k" similar to those in the ends el of the box serve to receive the locking wire 14 and lock the sides in their folded positions. `The device is thus made con` veniently foldable and readily held in either' position without danger of distortion or separation.

Having thus described my invention,

what I claim and desire to secure by Let-` A fastener for folding crate covers, comprising a cover having iianges on its ends provided with openings, said openings being of relatively` small diameter through the outer part `of the flange and of a larger diameter through the inner portion of the flange, locking wires carried bv said fianges, said wires being rigidly attached to the flanges at their middle portion and free at their outer ends, said free ends being bent at substantially right angles to the body of the wire to project through the openings in the flange and then bent back upon themselves to form stops too large to be pulled through the small opening in the flange.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set mv hand in the presence of two sub scribing witnesses.

GUS E. FRANKE, GEO. H. SIMMONS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for iive cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

` Washington, ID. C. 

